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Overview

Tilmann Habermas is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Their research primarily spans psychology and social sciences, with a significant focus on developmental and educational psychology, clinical psychology, and sociology and political science.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Memory Processes and Influences

Habermas has published frequently in a variety of academic journals. Notable publication venues include:

  • Journal of Personality
  • PSYCHE
  • Memory & Cognition
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Memory

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Habermas include:

  • Only some attempts at meaning making are successful: The role of change-relatedness and positive implications for the self, 2020, Journal of Personality
  • Explaining change in content of life narratives over time, 2020, Memory
  • Lifespan effects of current age and of age at the time of remembered events on the affective tone of life narrative memories: Early adolescence and older age are more negative, 2023, Memory & Cognition
  • Narrating lives across 16 years: Developmental trajectories of coherence and relations to well-being in a lifespan sample., 2024, Developmental Psychology
  • Individual differences in revising the life story-Personality and event characteristics influence change in the autobiographical meaning of life events, 2022, Journal of Personality

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Nina F. Kemper
  • Florian Schmiedek
  • Isabel Peters
  • Theresa Martin
  • Manxia Huang

Best Publications

  • Getting a life: the emergence of the life story in adolescence.

    Tilmann Habermas;Susan Bluck

  • A Tale of Three Functions: The Self-Reported Uses of Autobiographical Memory.

    Susan Bluck;Nicole Alea;Tilmann Habermas;David C. Rubin

  • The development of global coherence in life narratives across adolescence: temporal, causal, and thematic aspects.

    Tilmann Habermas;Cybèle de Silveira

  • The making of autobiographical memory: Intersections of culture, narratives and identity

    Robyn Fivush;Tilmann Habermas;Theodore E.A. Waters;Widaad Zaman

  • The Life Story Schema

    Susan Bluck;Tilmann Habermas

  • Understanding Developmental Regulation in Adolescence: The Use of the Selection, Optimization,and Compensation Model

    Richard M. Lerner;Alexandra M. Freund;Imma De Stefanis;Tilmann Habermas

  • The Development of Coherence in Adolescents’ Life Narratives

    Tilmann Habermas;Christine Paha

  • Characterizing Lifespan Development of Three Aspects of Coherence in Life Narratives: A Cohort-Sequential Study.

    Christin Köber;Florian Schmiedek;Tilmann Habermas

  • How to Tell a Life: The Development of the Cultural Concept of Biography

    Tilmann Habermas

  • Extending the study of autobiographical memory: Thinking back about life across the life span.

    Susan Bluck;Tilmann Habermas

  • Autobiographical reasoning in life narratives buffers the effect of biographical disruptions on the sense of self-continuity

    Tilmann Habermas;Christin Köber

  • Getting a Life Takes Time: The Development of the Life Story in Adolescence, Its Precursors and Consequences

    Tilmann Habermas;Elaine Reese

  • Getting a life: The emergence of the life story in adolescence.

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  • The psychiatric history of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: Weight concerns and bulimic symptoms in early case reports

    Tilmann Habermas

  • Autobiographical reasoning: arguing and narrating from a biographical perspective

    Tilmann Habermas

  • How to Tell a Life: The Development of the Cultural Concept of Biography

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  • Stuck in the past: negative bias, explanatory style, temporal order, and evaluative perspectives in life narratives of clinically depressed individuals

    Tilmann Habermas;Lisa-M. Ott;Merve Schubert;Beatrix Schneider

  • The development of the temporal macrostructure of life narratives across adolescence: beginnings, linear narrative form, and endings.

    Tilmann Habermas;Silvia Ehlert-Lerche;Cybèle de Silveira

  • “Honey, you’re jumping about”—Mothers’ scaffolding of their children's and adolescents’ life narration

    Tilmann Habermas;Alexa Negele;Fernanda Brenneisen Mayer

  • How stable is the personal past? Stability of most important autobiographical memories and life narratives across eight years in a life span sample.

    Christin Köber;Tilmann Habermas

  • Impaired coherence of life narratives of patients with schizophrenia.

    Mélissa C. Allé;Jevita Potheegadoo;Christin Köber;Priscille Schneider

  • Factor structure of overall autobiographical memory usage: The directive, self and social functions revisited

    Anne S. Rasmussen;Tilmann Habermas

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Bluck
Susan Bluck University of Florida
Robyn Fivush
Robyn Fivush Emory University
Elaine Reese
Elaine Reese University of Otago
Jean-Marie Danion
Jean-Marie Danion University of Strasbourg
David C. Rubin
David C. Rubin Duke University
Alexandra M. Freund
Alexandra M. Freund University of Zurich
Florian Schmiedek
Florian Schmiedek Max Planck Society
Richard M. Lerner
Richard M. Lerner Tufts University

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